Building a Library: Brahms: A German Requiem

Timings are approximate

9.05am


A Requiem for Josquin
DES PREZ: Nymphes, nappes - Circumdederunt me; Faulte d’argent; La Deploration de Johannes Ockeghem; Miserere mei Deus;
RICHAFORT: Missa pro defunctis ‘Requiem’
APPENZELLER: Musae Jovis
GOMBERT: Musae Jovis
VINDERS: O mors inevitabilis
Cinquacento
HYPERION CDA67959 (CD)


WILLAERT: Vespro Della Beata Vergine
Joris Verdin (Organ - Basilica di San-Petronio, Bologna)
Capilla Flamenca, Dirk Snellings (director)
RICERCAR RIC325 (CD)


Music from The Eton Choirbook
LAMBE: Nesciens mater a 5
WILLIAM, MONK OF STRATFORD: Magnificat a 4
ANON. Plainchant: Nesciens mater
DAVY: St Matthew Passion a 4
BROWNE: Stabat Mater a 6
KELLYK: Magnificat a 5
WYLKYNSON: Jesus autem transiens I; Credo in Deum
Tonus Peregrinus, Antony Pitts (director)
NAXOS 8572840 (CD, budget)

Music from The Eton Choirbook- Performing edition 2011
www.1equalmusic.com/Details/621


9.30am Building a Library

Jeremy Summerly surveys recordings of Brahms German Requiem and makes a recommendation:

BRAHMS: Ein Deutsches Requiem
Margaret Price (soprano), Thomas Allen (baritone), Chor und Orchestra des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor)
ORFEO C039101A (CD)


10:10am New Releases
Kenneth Hamilton joins Andrew to discuss recent releases of French piano music

BACH arr. CORTOT / HOUGH: Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV565
BACH arr. CORTOT: Arioso from Keyboard Concerto No 5 in F minor BWV1056
FAURE: Nocturne No 6 in D flat major Op 63; Improvisation in C sharp minor Op 84/5; Impromptu No 5 in F sharp minor Op 102; Barcarolle No 5 in F sharp minor Op 66;
RAVEL: Alborada del gracioso from Miroirs
MASSENET arr. HOUGH: Crepuscule from Poeme pastoral
CHABRIER: Melancolie from Dix Pieces pittoresques
POULENC: Melancolie; Nocturne No 4 in C minor ‘Bal fantome’; Improvisation No 8 in A minor
CHAMINADE: Automne Op 35/2
ALKAN: La chanson de la folle au bord de la mer Op 31/8]
DEBUSSY: Clair de lune from Suite bergamasque
DELIBES arr. HOUGH: Pizzicati from Sylvia
LISZT: Reminiscences de La juive: Fantaisie brillante sur des motifs de l’opera de Halevy S409a
HYPERION CDA67890 (CD)


LISZT: Sancta Dorothea; St. Francois d’Assise: La predication aux oiseaux; Consolations; Unstern! Sinistre, disastro; St. Francois de Paule marchant sur les flots
MESSIAEN: Petites esquisses d’oiseaux; Canteyodjaya
Fredrik Ullen (piano)
BIS BISCD1803 (CD)


DEBUSSY: Children’s Corner; Suite bergamasque; Danse; Deux Arabesques; Pour le piano; Masques; L’isle joyeuse; La plus que lente
Angela Hewitt (piano)
HYPERION CDA67898 (CD)


Benjamin Grosvenor - Rhapsody in Blue
SAINT-SAENS: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor Op. 22; The Swan
RAVEL: Piano Concerto in G Major; Prelude
GERSHWIN: Rhapsody in Blue; Love Walked In
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, James Judd (conductor)
DECCA 4783527 (CD)


LALO: Concerto russe for violin and orchestra Op. 29;Romance-Serenade for violin and orchestra; Fantaisie-ballet for violin and orchestra; Piano Concerto
LALO Orchestra. PIERNE: Guitare for violin and orchestra Op. 28
Jean-Jacques Kantorow (violin), Pierre-Alain Volondat (piano), Tapiola Sinfonietta, Kees Bakels (conductor)
BIS BISSACD1890 (Hybrid SACD)


11.05am
Pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard talks to Andrew about his two recent recordings for the Liszt and Debussy anniversaries

Pierre-Laurent Aimard - The Liszt Project
LISZT: Piano Sonata in B minor; La lugubre gondola; Nuages gris; Unstern! Sinistre; Aux Cypres de la Villa d'Este I; St. François d'Assise: La Predication aux Oiseaux; Les Jeux d'Eau à la Villa d'Este; Vallee d'Obermann
WAGNER: Piano Sonata in Ab major
BERG: Piano Sonata Op.1
SCRIABIN: Piano Sonata no.9 in F major
BARTOK: Nenie
STROPPA: Tangata manu
RAVEL: Jeux d'eau
MESSIAEN: Le Traquet stapazin
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4779439 (2CD, mid-price)


DEBUSSY: Preludes Book 1; Preludes Book 2
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4779982 (CD)


11.45am Disc of the Week

The Beethoven Journey: - Piano Concertos no. 1 and 3
BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major Op. 15; Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor Op. 37
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano and director), Mahler Chamber Orchestra
SONY 88725420582 (CD)